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A08492 Short questions and answeares, conteyning the summe of Christian religion Openshaw, Robert, b. 1554 or 5.; Pagit, Eusebius, 1547?-1617, attributed name. 1579 (1579) STC 18816; ESTC S120717 12,788 37

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of another and that our wordes and heartes may so be ordered at this time that we may truely vtter and reuerently receiue the principles of thy holy religion to the strengthening of our faith to the comfort of our consciences to the amendement of our sinfull and lewde liues and to the glorie of thy most holy name through Jesus Christ our Lorde Amen Question WHo made you Answeare god Gen. 1.17 Iob. 31.15 Q Who redeemed you A. Jesus Christ. Iohn 1.29 Q. Who sanctifieth and preserueth you A. The holie Ghost Gen. 1.2 Rom. 8.9.10 Q. What is the Father A. god Deut 4.35 Q. What is the Sonne A. god Mat. 1.23 Iohn 1.1 Q. What is the holy Ghost A. god Math. 28.19 Q. How many persons are there A. Three persons and one god 1 Iohn 5.7 Q. Wherefore hath God made sanctified and preserued you A. To seeke his glorie Rom. 11.36 Q. In seeking to set foorth Gods glorie howe manie thinges ought you principally to be carefull for A. 2. First howe to escape Gods iudgement Matth. 16.26 Secondly how to serue him Luke 1.74 Q. How will God be serued A. After his wil reueled in his word De. 12.32 Q. How manie things doth the worde teach vs principally A. 4. Obedience to the commaundementes Faith in Christ. Sacramentes Praier Q. Into howe manie tables are the commaundementes deuided A. Into two Exod. 31.18.34.1 Q. What doth the firste table concerne A. Our duety to God conteined in the foure first commaundementes Matth. 22.37 Q. What doth the second table concerne A. Our dutie to our neighboures contained in the sixe last cōmaundements Matth. 22.39 Q. In this order of the tables that the duetie to God is set before our duetie to our neighbour how manie lessons doe you learne A. 2. First I learne to serue him before all thinges and not to regarde substance no nor life it selfe in respect of his glorie Matth. 6.33 Exod. 32.32 Secondly if I render my dutie to God I must doe my dutie to my neighbour for if I neglect it to my neighbour whō I see daily it is euident that I doe so to god 1. Iohn 3.14 and. 4.20 Q. How many commaundementes are there A. Ten. God spake these wordes and saide c. Q. Is this a commaundement A. No it is but a preface or introduction to the commaundementes Q. How many lessons learne you out of it A. 3. First in that is sayed God spake these woordes and saide I learne that God is the author of them Secondly in that he saieth I am the Lorde I learne that he is of might maiestie and power to punish the offenders Thirdly in that is said Thy God which brought thee out of Aegypt and bondage I learne his mercie to them that loue and seeke his will. Q. What is the first commaundement and summe of it A. Thou shalt haue none other Gods but me wherein I learne to worship God and him alone Q. In howe manie poyntes standeth this worship A. 4. First in louing God aboue al. Mar. 10.37 Secondly in fearing God aboue all Mal. 1.6 Thirdly in praying to God and to none but him Matth. 6.9 Fourthly in acknowledging God to be the guider of all thinges and therefore to trust in him Act. 17.25.26 ● How manie thinges do you learne in the second commaundement Thou shalt not mak to thy selfe any grauen image c A. First that wee make no image of god Iohn 1.18 Secondly that we make no image of any other thing either to worship the image or any other thing by it Exo. 34.13 Iere. 2.27.10.8 Thirdly that we worshippe not God after our fansie but as he commaundeth Iohn 4.24 Matth. 15.9 Q. What is the thirde commaundement and the summe thereof A. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord c. which sūmarily teacheth me to vse the name of God with most high reuerence both in tongue and thought Q. Howe many lessons learne you in this commaundement A. 3. First it is sinne and blasphemie to applie the name of God to enchauntment sorcerie cursing or periurie Deut. 18 10. Secondly to sweare by creatures is a setting of his name at naught Psal. 16. Iere. 5.7 Thirdly in our ordinarie communication wee must neuer sweare Matth. 5.34 Iam. 5.12 Q. Tell me by whom we must sweare A. By God for it is a part of his glorie whiche he will giue to none other Deut. 6.13 Psal. 63.11 Q. In what causes and where is it lawfull to sweare A. Where the glorie of God is sought Or the saluation of our brethren Iere. 4.2 Or before a Magistrate Heb. 6.16 Q. Which is the fourth commaundement and the summe thereof A. Remember that thou keepe holie the Sabboth day c. Wherein the Lord appointeth that his creatures should haue a time to rest and serue him in Q. What must we do vpon the Sabboth day A. Holy thinges Q. What are those holie thinges A. Hearing and learning the worde of GOD preached praying receiuing the Sacramentes and meditating vpon his creatures Q. What thinges must we not doe A. Those thinges that necessitie doth not compell nor holinesse commaunde Isa. 58.13 Matth. 12.3.5.11 Q. Who must keepe holie the Sabboth A. Thou thy Sonne thy Daughter thy man thy maide thy cattell and the straunger Q. In the fift commaundement Honour thy father and thy mother c. What is meant by this word Honour A. To honour is to loue feare obey releeue Matth. 15.4 1. Tim. 5.17 Q. What is meant by father and mother A. Our naturall parentes the fathers of our countrie or of our houses the aged and our fathers in Christ. Q. How is the blessing of long life geuen when the disobedient liue long and the obedient and good for the most part die speedily A. The wicked liue to their further vengeance the godlie enioy it so farre as it shall be well for them Deu. 5.16 Isa. 57.1 Q. How manie lessons learne you out of this commaundement Thou shalt not kill A. 4. First I learne to tie my handes tongue and countenance to peace from fighting quarelling and mocking Matth. 5.22 Secondly it condemneth all anger in heart Leui. 19.17 Thirdly he commaundeth to prese●ue life Matth. 25 35. Fourthly he commaundeth to loue one another euen our enimies Matth. 5.44 Q. Which is the seuenth commaundement and the summe it A. Thou shalt not commit adultrie wherein he taketh order that his institution of Matrimonie might be mainteined Q. How many lessons learne you out of it A. 4. First God forbiddeth all adulterie and vncleannesse in our bodies Leuit. 18.24 Secondly all vnpure thoughtes and lustes of the heart Matth. 5.28 Thirdly all vnchast behauiour talke songes apparell and pastime that might entice vs to such vncleannesse Ephe. 4.29 Ephe. 5.3 1. Thessa. 5.22 Fourthly he commaundeth vs to keepe our bodies chast as the temples of the holie Ghost 1. Cor. 6.15 Q. Howe manie thinges are forbidden in the. 8. commaundement Thou shalt not steale A. 3. First all stealing
¶ Short questions and answeares conteyning the summe of Christian Religion Deut. 6.6 6 These wordes which I commaund thee this day shal be in thy heart 7 And thou shalt rehearse them continually vnto thy children shalt talke of them when thou tariest in thy house as thou walkest by the way and when thou lyest downe and when thou risest vp ¶ Imprinted at the three Cranes in the Vinetree by Thomas Dawson 1579. ¶ To Christian parentes and Housholders grace and mercie in Christ. THe blessings of God powred vpon this Realme in so great abundance as the preaching of the Gospell peace prosperitie and wealth vnder the rule and gouernement of our merciful Queene causeth me in thankesgeuing to ioy But the contempt and abuse of these blessinges mingleth my ioy with greefe and causeth Gods children for sorow to mourne and lament And this greeuing of Gods Spirite in his children shall fathers of children and maisters of housholdes though manie other do greeuously offend especially answeare for before god The great blessinges sent of God the lawes made by the Prince the woorde preached by the Ministers take small effect and bring foorth little fruite because parentes and maisters shew such examples of loose libertie in them selues and throwe the raines of licentiousnesse into the neckes of others They remember not the honourable calling whiche they haue of the Lorde that he hath placed them as it were in his owne roome and geuen them his own names that they might gouerne teache and direct others to honour and serue him vppon whom their preeminence doeth wholy depende But alas they do not their duetie in gouerning they applie not themselues in teaching them that are committed to their charge and therefore youth not gouerned nor taught nor praying at home can not pray nor learne in the congregation But as the deuises of men are ready to find excuses so seke they vp figge leaues in this to couer their shame First they wil say We geue thē meate mony for their worke what should we do more So do you bestowe vpon your beasts in buying feeding them but your seruantes are more pretious in the eye of the Lord you are charged in the fourth commaundement to see that they serue god Some say they sende them to the Church on the Sabbaoth and so answeare that charge But the Lorde cōmaundeth you your selues also to rehearse his lawes to your children and housholdes Deu. 6.7 If they plead ignorance it wil be but a weake answeare to the lord Some say they are ashamed to teache and pray with their housholdes I say because it is good they are ashamed else euerie thing they are ready to performe with brasen browes in open places Some say it is hypocrisie to performe their dutie let such pray for new hearts for if their owne consciences condemne them of hypocrisie God is greater than their consciences Some say it will let and hinder their seruantes from worke as Pharaoh obiected to Moses Exod. 5.4 But our Sauiour answeareth such in his answeare to Martha Luke 10.41 This I speake not to nourse anie in idlenesse for such should not eate 2. Thess. 3.10 Some say they shal be scorned by worldlinges If you seeke to please men you are not the seruantes of Christ Galat. 1.10 Yet this was Christes portion and they are but faint souldiours that flee for a woorde for we must buckle with the diuell hande to hande who will not leaue vs till death except by Apostasie we yeelde to him both bodies and soules Some say that they cannot bring the vnlearned in letters to this knowledge but they do not remember that God geueth knowledge of his mysteries euē to the simple that feare him Psalme 25.14 And in foure monethes space I haue seene these principles and answeares learned by Gentlemen Yeomen Horsekeepers Shepheardes Carters Milkemaides Kitchen-boyes al in that houshold where these orders were obserued excepting three or foure whose capacitie was but meane simple yet the simplest went not without some profite Some say youth are so stubborne that they will abide no such orders I say better is the roome of suche then their companie for if admonitiōs appointed by the Lord winne them not auoyde them and so shalt thou auoyde the infecting of the rest of thy householde by them so shalt thou make others to feare so shalt thou by making them ashamed of their sinnes driue them to repentaunce principally thou shalt auoyde Gods iudgement against thee and thy houshold If thou knowest that thou keepest an ignorant superstitious Papist a blasphemous swearer a disobediēt subiect to God Prince Ruler a licentious and loose liuer which giueth his bodie to fighting whooring and stealing his tongue to quarelling filthie talking and lying thou seeke not to refourme him by the order of God doest thou not make thy house his stewes thy selfe his bawde Remoue such lest God remoue thee Is it writtē in vaine that the plague shall neuer goe from the house where the swerer is that it shal be full of plagues Will not the Lord perfourme that which he hath spokē by his prophet Zacharie 5.5 That there shal remain a plague in such houses to consume them with the timber stones therof I would they would cōsider what God saide to Elie in the like case Thou honorest thy children aboue me therfore I wil cut thee and them off The comfort he had of his youthes in the ende was this the Arke the witnesse of the Lordes pre●ence was lost thirtie thousand of the people slayne his two sonnes killed this liued he to heare and so in sorrow fell backward and brake his necke then his daughter in lawe fell in trauell and in trauell died the remnant of his house were glad to crouche and begge for a small peece of siluer and a morsell of bread If our Englishmen could beholde these plagues the remouing of Religion to a people that shall bring foorth fruit of it the taking away of our Queene the wayling of their wiues the murdering of their children and the cutting of their owne throtes by straungers they woulde looke better about them O Fathers of children and housholdes if you woulde before hand arreigne your selues before Gods iudgment seate and there finde your selues endited readie to be condemned for sending your posteritie to begge at straungers doores for spoyling your children of their liues this realme of religion Queene and peace and that you shoulde see there your children wiues countrie Churche of GOD and Queene accusing you for murtherers and traytoures what will you answeare what can you say Turne your musicke to mourning your feasting to fasting your riotting to repenting and say with Dauid and with Daniel 2. Sam. 12.13 Dan. 9.5 We haue sinned and committed iniquitie done wickedly haue rebelled against thee O Lorde righteousnesse belongeth vnto thee and vnto vs open shame and confusion of faces Say with the men Actes 2.37 and